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'We must ferment public painting in the streets, in the sunlight, on the sides of tall buildings instead of the advertisements that we see there now.' - David A. Siqueiros, 1934 |
Mat Hand is an artist working in the public realm. His paintings and installations have been commissioned by Arts Council England, local authorities, social initiatives, construction companies and private patrons. publicpainting uses strong images, text and a bold, vivid style to create temporary site-specific interventions. |
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| PUBLIC PORTRAITS (ongoing project) Exterior Size: Various Client: none Location: Berlin A series of large scale, anonymous public portraits applied directly onto delivery trucks, market trailers and buildings in Berlin. |
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| PUBLIC TEXT (ongoing project) Exterior Size: Various Location: Various Temporary, site specific, text installations working with font and emblematic text. |
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| TAKE ME WITH YOU Exterior Size: 8 Portraits (each 13.5m x 2.7m) photographic prints onto plastic banners Client: Arts Council England Location: Road Network UK Take Me With You was a participatory, travelling public art installation exploring absence and longing through a combination of public portraiture and poetic text. In collaboration with a photographer, long distance lorry drivers, their families and a haulage media specialist, publicpainting produced a series of eight lorry sized family portrait photographs which were installed, along with poetic text, onto the driver's working trailers. Take Me With You launched in January 2011 |
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| ALL GOOD THINGS... March 2012 Interior Size: 3m x 2.5m Location: Nelson Mandela State International School Berlin A commemorative portrait to mark Michael Hertz's retirement as Principal and founder of the NMSISB. |
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| DON & MAGARET July 2011 Exterior Size: 4m x 2.5m Location: D343 between St Paulet de Caisson and Pont St Esprit, Gard, France This double portrait is a celebration and commemoration of the 20 years that Donald & Margaret Thom lived and worked in the Ardeche region of Southern France. |
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| TRACE October 2009 (12th National Mural Symposium, Canada) Exterior Size: 5m x 3m Client: 12th National Mural Symposium, Canada Location: 2195 Gerrard St East, Toronto, Canada As source material for this painting Mat met and photographed Torontonians living in Berlin - Germany. Trace is based on an image of one of these expatriates and looks at ideas of absence, identity and belonging. Thanks to Karin, Janice and the Mural Routes team for all of their help and support. |
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| GIANT July 2009 Exterior Size: 15m x 12m Client: Pfefferwerk, Berlin Location: Lychener Str. Prenzlauer Berg, East Berlin A large, high-contrast image of a young child painted onto a new building in East Berlin. |
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| LOOKOUT January 2010 Exterior Size: 200m x 2.5m Client: Pfefferwerk, Berlin Location: Watt Str. Wedding, Berlin 100 Figures painted around a new building in North Berlin. Lookout uses simple shapes, outlines and black dots to personify blocks of colour. |
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| PLAY September 2009 Exterior Size: 45m x 13m Client: Pfefferwerk, Berlin Location: Lychener Str. Prenzlauer Berg, East Berlin PLAY used projectors, window adhesives and acrylic paints to create a gigantic text piece in the German Alte Haas Grotesk Font |
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| SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME June 2008 Exterior Size: 100m² Clients: Junction Arts, Frederick Gent School & Arts Council of England Location: South Normanton, Derbyshire. These three large, photographic banner portraits are printed on exterior PVC mesh banners and are a celebration of the older women of South Normanton & Pinxton. The project aimed to explore and challenge ageist attitudes and the lack of positive visual representations of older women within our society.
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| GIRLS & BOYS July 2008 Exterior Size: 75m x 1.80m (23 x 1.80m x 1.38m portraits & text) Client: Brent Council, London Location: Harley Road, Harlesden, London This project addressed the difficulties experienced by children in the UK faced with increasingly hysterical media reports of the disrespectful and out of control youths roaming the streets. It sought to investigate the simplistic way in which we and society judge and categorise children and the inherent long-term dangers that such behaviour poses for communities and the children in question. |
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| LADIES & GENTLEMEN February 2007 Exterior Size: 10 x 6m² Portraits Client: LIFT & City Arts Location: Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham These ten large, public portraits of elderly people looking upwards to the sky are installed next to a main road. They offer an ambiguous yet positive and arresting set of images of a section of the local community that rarely features in the visual landscape of the city. |
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| For more information please email or phone: info@publicpainting.com + 49 (0) 176 295 12434 |
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all images © Mat Hand. .
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